This file photo shows boys in Ho Chi Minh City's Can Gio District bathing in clean water supplied through a 42-km pipeline Photo: Tuoi Tre

An agreement on the funding was signed between Deputy Minister of Finance Truong Chi Trung and Italian Ambassador to Vietnam Lorenzo Angeloni in Hanoi on November 15, the Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) daily reported on November 16.

The daily says this is the follow-up of a programme which benefited 150,000 poor people in its first phase.